A person was reported stabbed near the encampment area at Seven Hills Park and was being treated by Seattle Fire outside the nearby 7-11 in an incident Monday afternoon on Capitol Hill.
Seattle Fire was called to the 7-11 store at 15th and Denny just before 1:45 PM.
Seattle Police were investigating a report the stabbing had took place at the nearby park, according to East Precinct radio updates.
The patient was treated by Seattle Fire and transported to Harborview. We do not yet have information on their condition. UPDATE: Seattle Fire reports the patient is a woman in her 30s who suffered a stab wound and was transported to Harborview in stable condition.
Seattle Police were working with a suspect description and searching the area. Police confirmed a suspect was taken into custody at Seven Hills Park and a knife was recovered.
UPDATE 11/9/2021: A witness to the crime has provided additional details to CHS about the incident to help clarify the situation. According to the witness, the incident began with one woman apparently finding another inside her tent at Seven Hills Park and screaming for her to get out. The witness says the woman appeared to stab at the woman inside the tent who then fled to near the 7-11 where she was treated.
The witness lives near the encampment and says the area has been mostly “low drama” despite concerns from some who live nearby and expressed hope that reporting the assault to police not only helped the victim receive needed medical aid but helped make the encampment safer for those who are living there.
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This encampment is NOT acceptable, and has become a whole city to itself, and needs immediate action
I’m sure you have serious insightful unconsidered alternatives that people with the goal of rescue would love to hear. Feel free to contact them.
One doesn’t really know which ones actually have the goal of rescue. I think that’s kind of the point. What is rescue?
Not to put too fine a point on this but, where you see litter, I see suffering.
The question people like you never acknowledge is what about the suffering inflicted by some of the campers on others, such as the person who was actually stabbed? These are not one-off incidents. They are happening practically every week in encampments all over the city. My office building is next to one of these encampments, and we have literally been shot at, followed into work, assaulted, threatened, and robbed by these individuals to the point where we had to hire extra security to escort our staff.
And if they are doing this to those of us with the ability to call the cops, what do you think they’re doing to those who live in the encampments who might not feel empowered to call law enforcement? Unsupervised encampments are a dangerous place for the campers. I am not opposed to encampments if they are supervised and regulated. These are not. That is a serious safety hazard.
Yes. I get the feeling that parks are cleared in order of community pressure. Big ones, Anderson with lots of damage, Volunteer so popular and beautiful, then ones next to schools like Miller/Meany, then commercial zone chaos sites: Williams place. Next will come all the pocket parks as shelter space comes available. Seven Hills will definitely have to be cleared after this knifing incident. I walked by as the weapon was being retrieved by SPD and thanked our public servants.
Wondering why this ended up at 7-11 with Group Health right across the street.
I think the highest level of care there is an “urgent care”. A stabbing would need to be seen in a legit ER.
Have you tried Kaiser not so urgent care?
So as someone who lives 3 blocks away, and 1 block away from the recent stabbing on 16th/Thomas St, this is just f*cking unacceptable.
And how much of this is related to the ongoing encampment at Seven Hills Park?
Which, by the way, is completely unusable by the community.
Ditto for the recently-at-great-expense constructed Broadway Hill Park.
I am 100% for providing social services to the homeless in Seattle, and 100% on board for being compassionate.
BUT I AM ALSO NOT LOOKING TO GET STABBED BY SOMEONE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD WHEN I AM OUT DOING SOMETHING AS INNOCUOUS AS WALKING TO THE LIGHT RAIL.
We need to these encampments cleared as soon as possible. It is well past time.
Shame on this story for saying “near encampment” to dog whistle all the classists and anti-poor. It paints all our houseless neighbors as bad doing dangerous journalism like this.
Gee, according to the story Seattle police were investigating information saying the stabbing took place in the park. And subsequently, a suspect in the park was taken into custody. Should that not be mentioned in the story? Censorship, such as you suggest, has no place in journalism.
I live right across the street, and don’t feel safe in my own first floor bedroom. The corner has become an intolerable nexus of nuts. Interrupted someone shooting up on my front step.
We have been trying for months to get the city to take action on this encampment — precisely for this reason! Neighbors have reached out to Jenny Durkan (no response whatsoever, City council members (patronizing form letter responses saying they are VERY busy), and Seattle Parks (non-committal form letter making excuses). The city is COMPLETELY unresponsive to the safety and well-being of the community that lives near and used to use this park daily. Where is the accountability???
This attack might have nothing to do with the encampment. 15th and 7-11 already have people hanging around.
Based on the update, looks like it does have to do with the encampment.
Read the update. The incident happened in the encampment.
Welp there you go with the police update on what happened. That’s exactly the insane levels of danger the homeless encounter on a routine basis, that and getting beat up and theft.